n beardino, e most pouted par of thenited stes. man 2: you can see it and you can smell it and youan sometimes taste it. n 1: thereightnd logistics industrys the primarcontribur. woman:hey tolde that mson d respirory issu. onof the dtors told me, has to with, y know, e enviroent. whato we wan n: l's starto explor wh's reay haening inur city. the naative veus the tth. itoesn't matter homuch the economicenefits e no one'around tspend it woman: sce it's stly peoe of col in thescommunits thatre beingffected it, th turnea blind e to it. ma how farre we goa let is go? whave to t a stop this at se point.

man: "eah focus" is made poible in rt by a ant fromnne ray foundaon, a maaret a. cargilphilanthpy, and the oran county communitfoundati. woman: ha is a pudponsor ofrth fos." [macne hissi] [childn blowin

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so type of breatng-relat lness, ion't necsarily like, asthem outght beuse i kn that fome when was a ki it was,ike, deep persona soon as tell th that i have i ey immedtely say"well, , you unrsta inhalerand bulizersnd augmein and alterol." let's e.ne-two. theryou go. at was ne. one-tw it not allbout achving for the kids. 's reall justbout bei able to particate and ve fun. [boy shoing indiinctly] garcia: was diagsed with asma befori was year old i rember jt wanderg hoital halays hook up to the nelizer anmy inhal. i real loved ring my be. t if it s farthethan, sa out 15 mutes' ring diance, th it wasn a go idea fome to go

as a kidyou begito be, le, known ashe kid wh asthmar, you kn, the kiwho can' brthe or, u know, e kid you dot wantn your baetball tm. 1, 2, 3.ike this ah, ah, , ah... ling in thinland eire, not a loof people e educat what isctually e coition ofhe envirment. it been acally visle in termof, likehow bad e air quity actuly is. you casee it a you canmell it you canometimes ste it. man: if u're worng on cln air sues, yoimmediaty start to cenr in on

n bernarno. sabernardino ijust eas los anges. it one of e most pluted, if nothe most pollut rt of thunited stes. u try toigure out wh's causing at air plution. you reale the frght and logiicindustrys the primary contribur. man 2: a in san rnardino in se ways igovern bthe aiquality wind thais what is owing them fromos angel. hover, thealso proce eir own llution well. it h to do wh land u ross losngeles a southern california. many of those places, because of the cost of land, have been developed in san bernardino and riverside counties. martinez: you have a lot of local elected leaders who are allowing this to happen. it's probably some of the most explosive growth in warehousing in the country.

ol: we g almost % of the cargtraffic at comeso us from asiachina, jan korea,nd then mes to s angeleand longeach. and th they arput on t backs truckor rai d shped t across the regi. martin: we saw-commee st boom ring theandemic. saw freht voles come

thugh the rt at hier vels thawe've ev seen. wee seen dsel truc and her truc on peop's roads and , the has continueo roll. ose hihardest the pandic are t folks w are t hardesby this llution. they'rliterallbuding thi stufin peopls backyas. av: the effects ofir poution aractuallyuch more dramic and wespread an most pple undetand. you ow, withegard to whether r pollutn is assoated witasthma, th canc, with oer sor of health madies, the infoation isretty clr thatir polluon is a own cainogen.

man: my n leonar, before turned e, he end up tting si and it s a cold just codn't breathe. , then wok him tthe gent carin loma nda and th they end up givg him, lik steroidthrough, likea oral syrge to ki of help hisungs expd and to help h breathe he had tt done since the like, about or 4 tim and 's 3 now whenhey tolde that mson harespiraty issues started ying becse i got ared. i thout i had ne sothing wron and themy husbd told m "no, yoknow we've en takincare of m right.ou know,t's not thing weid." i asked em, yoknow "whado y think csed it?" one the docrs told o, it hato do wi you ow, the vironmen" so, st them nd of coirming that f me was shock. is isomethinthat i c't ield himrom becae i can' put hiin a bube. trainsould usuly run f

abt, you kw, 5 mines somemes if ty're fas but th one haseen goinon for out two nutes, 3inutes now,nd i don see it opping anyte soon. might s there and id like thone behi i you knowand thenhere mit be anoer one cing after , because i ink i hear anotr one cong aftert. yeah. av: we hava surpring mber of hools anparks alongsidbusy roaays and railines, anour rece research in the last few decades has shown us children who live closer to busy roadways, they actually had poorer lung functi and smaer lungs by vtue of bathinghe a. it canffect thr lifelo heth and t duratio of theirives. barra: thereas timeshere we didant to rocate ouof san bernardo to somewhere else because we wanted a better life for our child.

but at the end of the day, i decided this is where i had my child, this is where i met my husband this is where i grew up. whato we wan pele: cleaair! barrera:hat do wwant? ople: go jobs! barrera:hat do wwant? peop: clean air! rrera: what doe want? ople: go jobs! barrera: w neverwarehat sabernardi had sucbad air quity untiprobablylike wh i had my son 3 years ago. i starteto educate myselon what is ppening d then once i lked, couldt lookway, sin it's stly peoe of col in thes commities that are bng affectedy it, which ishy you kn, i feel like pele don't rely care little b beuse if iwas a dierent demograpc, believehat it woulhave beechanged long timego. ehicle hn honkin n: amazohas t to go. hey, heyho, ho amon has g to go.. we'rshowing lidarityo all the wahouse woers d all thlogisticworkers

acro the regn. amon has g to go.. 80of the people re have mily memrs or kn somebod whworks in warehou or lostics instry, bet iving a uck, workinin a warouse or worng neathe railad. our lus are nofor sale people: r lungs e t for sa. man:here's aot of pele here thahave famy member with ahma. there's ople here whhave familyembers w havpassed ay from ncer. annow thers a growg consciouess abouthe issu and ople aretarting fight backin one fl swoop, lot of tse corpotions could tigate t issue o poution anthey cou create high-roajob sect. is is wh we're pting ts baer up toy for. basically syolize, le, the rion and our ght. [vicle hornsonking] [peoplspeakingndistincy]

av: diesel providea lot of por to movbig, hea trucks anbig,eavy vehicle in burng that esel fue it creat very hi ncentratns of ve small particle so smal at they n evade ny of e defense chanismse have inur bodie once icrosses e air-bld barriein the lgs and gs in the cirlatory stem, it potenally hasffects o any gan to wre bloodoes, whicis everyrgan in theody. garc: one thg about ople inhe inld empires that

ke, the terial cditions he will ma an orgazer or tivistut of justbout anydy. i grewp literay right the street from the rport d i can se like, ian see t planes takg off anlanding from my pants' hse my childho home. and then we also have our newly formed eastgate air cargo logistics hub, which is based out of the san bernardino international airport. it is just gds comi and goi. and the in moverf these gos is aman.

martinez: we have a case against the federal aviation administration. that's an agency that approves airpt projec. so, we filed suit challenging their environmental analysis at was de for th amazon airport prect. one y, my coeague whs an attory i workith find th one ema where t faa was commicating rectly wh amazonbout how nyirplanesere gonn come in d out ofhis projt. sowe kind had thi"aha" mont. "aha they'venown thatmazon waengaged veryarly on this prect, yet ey were ding i and fed thalawsuit the united stes courof appea. weere asking t court tstop

thproject til ey do a lawf environntal revw. there's immenseower imbance becae you ha a compy like azon with infini wealth. u can't y that tse enties can'tfford . ey may n want toay to clean their plution anmake it fer to bathe but at doesn't mean ey can't do it anthey shodn't do . th effort trulyind of what peoe call did versu goath. comnity gros, they're st, theye just mo nimbl they kn eir commity bett. ey're counicatinwithheir neigors abouthe harm the paion for n bernarno antheir counity, y know, azon doesn'tave that theyill nevehave tha

rcia: th issue ithis regi in the land empe is so inrsection becauset hato do wi your physic health,t has too wi structul inequi it has tdo witpoverty d racism. definitely begs for attentn becausthe probm itself inot goinaway. ma for tod's meeti the's abt 5 topi that we're gon cover. are stly remders abo things aut regarng the rden. sandras sayinghat she' willg to.. is gardereprests, real e promion of hlth, but nojust phycally, t again,entally. i'm jorgheredia. i am aardeneheret the gardenf health it's iortant f us to fd the placeshere we n-- where can mt

each oer and coect with each otr. just heang other people' ories anhearing eir strules withsthma, hring their ruggles th cance withbesity awell, wi high bod presse,because at's allonnected you ow, whenou don have cess to althfood, l of that pys in in the quaty of heah that wall have as counity meers and a communy as a wle. thisarden isfor me, form resistae. 's a wayhat we can reay, agn, just and up f ouelves, snd up foour heth, and y to do at we n to impve our ality ofife. ye, the wi's picki up a lot the dus man: i he my own interest ings thai like tdo, too. one ofhem not aying in theirt too ch. [lghs] but i like to ce out an lp him wer from me to ti. i do enjoy theroduce thate brings home.

i was diagnosed with cancer in016. we dn't knowlike, whe i s gonna , how myif i was gonna imove beuse i s stage [wan speakg indistinly] hedia: ok. [wan speakg indistctly] thomasmaybe th he connts wi gardeni becausee's able to pvide that.t's somethg that hcan do bause i don't thk he kneexactly what to do. it'sot like there's a ole foods here, so, you're not gettingreat oduce. redia: ias worki at a wareuse wheny wi was diagned. you're working 10 hours at a warehouse. you're discouraged from interacting with other people. and it's a very lonely living. these warehouses are massive. i was moving throughout the whole warehouse and itas emp. it's like, i would--i wouldn't see anybody down the aisles. you kn,

that was kind ofhe-- that kind ofike, ain, i w like, i waworking ere. i wa like, cing. le, i'walking rough the aies, likecrying becausi don't ow at theuture los like. i'm ry uncerin what e ture lks lik hofar are gonna t this g we haveo put a stop tthis at me point man:here's t differe types of oleander. thatne, thers a bush. th grow in, like, tree rcia: ohyeah man: her let me t this ee. i nt to pu some of th dirt ov her garciai grew o of asth arnd 15. i nd of hithe grou running as teenageonce i kd of ke, undetood thai got myungs. ma yeah, s anyway, garciai have hartime acceptg that mdad is-- he going tough theame ing that experieed. ey thoug that th were

goa probab grow th way. hidoctor aually to him at, li, the enronment at we'ren is actlly actively ctributinto the decle in his abilitto breathe. man: well, i moved here in 10. in970, sanernardinwas stilregular mmunity. i've sn and nowe're he in '21,nd we go trillionof trucktaking or our reets, tearinup our rds. litt by litt, befo you knowf youryes are osed, thnext thi yoknow, "w, look athat big warehoe. why a they ilding rht here- not eve two les awaythey hav a nster wahouse. and th's whereeople li. they ain gonna gany high. that'sood. [lauter] ill on o mind weould move, u know, d it might help me. it jus you kno you just ve to maka choiceyou know if igets wor, we mig you knowwe mightell out and ve somewre else d try out.

andres gcia: it'a big mo because 've beenere for ng andll of oufamily i herend there's souch roothere. martez: we bieve thenly wawe're goa get ouof this aiquality isis is we shift zero emsions, particully in thfreight instry, asoon as posble. thsouth cot air quity manament disict is t ency thas responble for king surwe breat clean a in the rion. and sofor years, we haveeen pushing at agencto adopt wh's callean indirt source ruler rule trequir rehouseso implemt clean technoloes to clean up eir operions. n: i'm ao reminded that i reprent the lmington counity. y have a t of these warehousesn the wilmington community, disadvantaged, impted counit

n 2: andll of us trust not just [indiinct]. [iistinct atter] man: hou member,re you ady to ttify? man 2: im ready. as an ected ficial i ar you this is a piline. you mat happenere wi this bo move. i makehe rest ppen my city toda i'm accpaniedy to of environmental justic adcates, oanizers, espeally, whve been puttg in theround wo in suprt of anndirect sources le. so, basilly, that is a kind of logtic devepment wahousing at is er 10000 squa feet wod be responsiblfor theicarbon otprinand ju the esel essions, erything to androm the rehous as oosed to ior, where the has be none. but e realy is thawithou this rulbeing imemend, thing isoing to ange. the lostics instry wl coinue to le the rion d nothinwill ever get bett wh it cometo our hlth. it dsn't matr how mu the onomic befits ar if none'around tspend it thindirectources re, if tt passesoday

it wld be the rst typef legislion, poly, that actual enforcele. today, ty're votg on tha finay. woman:hose tru are sti gonna ben our frways anthey're still nna be spewin[indistit] becau nothg in this le gets d of diesetrucks. th'll be rlaced he by oth... rrera: don't tnk she derstandwhat thendirect soce rule ads becae she-- oh, myosh. rutherfo: that'shy i'll vong again it d appriate my. [indisnct chatr] reoso: we st have connect thdots and let start to dig into e employnt practice let's srt to talk about the wag. let'starto talabout th tempary emplnt. les starto explo what's reallyappeni in our ty and the narrive versus theruth. justhe attempts to g logiics to bresponsie for their otprinand whathey do to ourommuniti, 6+ yea. man:ith thatwould thclerk plse call e roll. man: [instinct]. man 2: a. man 3: yea woman [indiinct]. ma no. peopleboo!

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ah? voice-over: most of the people that work here, they used to work at mines before. so when the mine decides to shut down, they have nothing to do but to go down there and dig for themselves. [coal crunching underfoot] man 2: we find that coal is our national resources. it's the only thing that can generate electricity at this point in time. woman: t